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The board game Scrabble is 60 years old, or maybe 70, depending on where you start counting from. PES created this eye-popping stop-motion ad to honor the occasion. Link (embedded YouTube video)
Posted 1hr 36mins ago by Neatorama.
Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, Programming, OpEd, Heroes, Casting, Reality-Free, FringeWhen exactly did we start lusting after sci-fi mystery shows with such a vengeance? That's the question I'm asking myself after reading the news about ABC's Flash Forward, a drama pilot starring Courtney…
Posted 1hr 46mins ago by TV Squad.
Merlin Mann doesn't crank out posts on software, focus, time-savers, and the other realms of "productivity pr0n" anymore, but he's still got a razor-sharp focus on the kinds of thinking that move things forward. He writes at 43 Folders about trying to get better at his personal photographs, and fighting…
Posted 1hr 49mins ago by Lifehacker.
What’s it like when a canal city has a flood? Venice, Italy is undergoing its worst flooding in 22 years as water has risen five feet above normal levels. Venice’s lagoon often rises to 40 inches above its normal level during ‘acqua alta’ or high tides, particularly in autumn and winter.…
Posted 2hrs 19mins ago by Neatorama.
Google has upped its commitment to bringing newspaper archives online, first announced in September, by buying 20 million historical pages from Paper of Record, covering the U.S., Canada, Mexico, and Europe. Good news for scholars, students, and "Day you were born" print-out gifts.
Posted 2hrs 19mins ago by Lifehacker.
(YouTube link) YouTube member blinktwice4y wrote a song about Mario Kart and love. The lyrics are available at the YouTube page. My younger daughter will adore this! She recently traded in ALL her Nintendo DS games to get Mario Kart. I didn’t realize that my older daughter didn’t have any…
Posted 2hrs 21mins ago by Neatorama.
Walruses can be cute -if they can play the saxophone like Sara! The flippered, whiskered creature is delighting audiences with her human-like skills, playing the saxophone, blowing a whistle, or simply adopting the universal expression for ‘I’m bored, get me out of here’. When handed…
Posted 2hrs 23mins ago by Neatorama.
For coffee, a pot just won’t do. Neither will a microwave oven. How about a YAG laser beam? For hot dogs, forget the grill or toaster oven. Cook them with a 10-foot tall Tesla coil! See videos of both procedures at Talk Like A Physicist. Link -via Dark Roasted Blend
Posted 2hrs 26mins ago by Neatorama.
Filed under: Celebrities, Ratings, Reality-FreeCraig Ferguson is beating Conan O'Brien in the late, late night wars. His show scored an average of 1.9 million viewers compared to 1.85 million for Conan for the week. Ferguson's numbers increased from 1.75 million from the same time last year (the article…
Posted 2hrs 28mins ago by TV Squad.
Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, TV on DVD, OpEd, Video, Vs., Reality-FreeEven before I caught Twilight on the big screen, I was comparing it to Roswell, the great teen sci-fi/romance series that aired on The WB (and later The CW UPN) from 1999-2002. The Twilight ads and trailers seemed…
Posted 2hrs 57mins ago by TV Squad.
Last night's release of the Google Desktop Gmail Gadget added yet another way for users of the big G's email service to be pinged about their new inbox messages. While constant email awareness isn't necessarily a great thing, as alumnus Keith, author Tim Ferriss, and our site editor have noted, Gmail…
Posted 2hrs 59mins ago by Lifehacker.
Filed under: Heroes, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free(S03E11) Well, that was a whole lot of hullabaloo about nothing. I know, I know can't spoil anything before the jump. Can I say that I'm really enjoying Hiro these last couple of episodes? Maybe all he needed was to be a 10-year old boy. In fact, I wasn't…
Posted 3hrs 17mins ago by TV Squad.
Windows only: NexusFile is a feature-rich portable Windows Explorer alternative. Weighing in at just under 3MB, NexusFile easily replaces a host of other applications. There is a basic file renamer, an ftp client, and a file splitter/joiner. You can export saved file lists in a variety of formats, assign…
Posted 3hrs 29mins ago by Lifehacker.
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Programming, Pickups and Renewals, Reality-FreeToday's news that CBS ordered five more episodes of Eleventh Hour is not a big surprise. A big surprise would have been if the network didn't give the freshman drama a re-order. The Jerry Bruckheimer production has been in…
Posted 3hrs 54mins ago by TV Squad.
The New York Times reports that in a study of 61 people, those who took a 2-hour afternoon nap did "significantly" better at repeating verbal, perception, and motor-skill tests from that morning than those given caffeine or a placebo. What's more, the caffeine takers didn't do do much better in verbal…
Posted 3hrs 59mins ago by Lifehacker.
Filed under: Scrubs, Casting, Reality-FreeIf you wonder if Scrubs will still feel like an NBC sitcom when it moves to ABC in January, the answer is probably yes. That's especially true since the January 6th one-hour premiere -- back to back episodes -- will be the start of Courteney Cox's guest role…
Posted 4hrs 43mins ago by TV Squad.
Microsoft's Live image search tool added a new button underneath every image result you mouse over: "Show similar images." Close to the functionality of previously mentioned engine TinEye, but with a much wider scope and reach. The complexity of the image, and cleverness of its knock-offs, will of course…
Posted 4hrs 49mins ago by Lifehacker.
Just-released webapp Freckle isn't, as it proclaims, a whole-cloth re-thinking of time tracking, billing, and client management, but it is refreshingly light, agile, and easy to get into. Like Remember the Milk and other text-aware apps, it doesn't require learning an entirely new input system, but…
Posted 5hrs 59mins ago by Lifehacker.
An easy way to exploit people with a lack of opportunity
Posted 7hrs 51mins ago by Mixx: Popular.
Some might say that professional and extreme bodybuilding is all about pushing the body to its limits, in search of that “perfect image” that tends to vary from person to person. Others might claim that it’s an addiction that can’t be helped, a ha
Posted 10hrs 49mins ago by Mixx: Popular.
ERISA/Employee Benefits Attorneys can offer their services in various areas including: Current welfare benefit plan issues like understanding ERISA compliance for companies with a third-party insurance agent or administrator.
Posted 11hrs 20mins ago by Mixx: Popular.
Filed under: Episode Reviews, The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Reality-Free(S02E11) If ever the show Cold Case did an episode involving killer robots from the future, it would be tonight's Sarah Connor Chronicles. The reverse is also true.Cameron certainly earned her "most efficient killing machine on the…
Posted 13hrs 2mins ago by TV Squad.
Filed under: OpEd, Episode Reviews, Chuck, Reality-Free (S02E09) This season we've met Sarah's high school nemesis, who turned out to be a rogue spy, Chuck's ex-girlfriend, who turned out to be a rogue spy, and we had a return of Bryce, who was a spy from an opposing agency. This week, we met John Casey's…
Posted 13hrs 33mins ago by TV Squad.
I’m not a fan of chainsaws as anti-zombie weapons, despite their use by the great Ash. But this variant of the chainsaw intrigues me. It’s a small chainsaw mounted on a semi-automatic rifle as a bayonet. It would make the rifle absurdly heavy, but it would also provide some safety in the…
Posted 15hrs 1min ago by Neatorama.
Filed under: OpEd, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free, Gossip Girl(S02E12) "I'm leaving him." - LilyIf you are keeping up with Gossip Girl spoilers like me, the shocking ending of "It's a Wonderful Lie" was not surprising and you know what will happen next week (don't worry, I won't spoil the fun here for…
Posted 15hrs 55mins ago by TV Squad.
A list of the holiday's 10 worst albums. Terrible.
Posted 16hrs 1min ago by Mixx: Popular.
by Mike Krumboltz If a story is on the front page of Yahoo!, chances are it's a pretty big deal. We dove into a year's worth of data and tracked down the ten most popular articles from our front page in 2008. It's an intriguing mix. There are beautiful women (of course), sudden tragedies, and minor…
Posted 16hrs 15mins ago by Yahoo! Buzz Log.
Windows only (running Google Desktop): If you want access to your Gmail on your desktop (literally) without running a full-blown email client, now you can download the Gmail Google Desktop gadget. You'll need the free Google Desktop software installed first, and then you can dock your Gmail gadget to…
Posted 16hrs 22mins ago by Lifehacker.
Filed under: Industry, Programming, OpEd, Casting, Reality-FreeCan I say something here that some of you will disagree with? There are way too many procedurals on the air right now. Criminal procedurals, medical procedurals, criminal-medical procedurals...the networks are popping them out faster than…
Posted 16hrs 30mins ago by TV Squad.
Psst - you’ve got a secret admirer. Well, actually not yet … but you will, if Jake Bronstein of Zoomdoggle has his ways. The always-fun Jake (who came up with ideas-so-wacky-they’re-brilliant like the Fun-O-Meter and randomly thanking customer service reps posted previously on Neatorama)…
Posted 16hrs 35mins ago by Neatorama.
Can you believe it, 2008 is almost over! Yahoo! Buzz takes a look back at 2008 (well, so far anyways) in terms of what people are most interested in searching. Taking number 1 spot is Britney Spears (no surprise there, she’s been at the top search for both Yahoo! and Google for years). The list…
Posted 16hrs 36mins ago by Neatorama.
Filed under: OpEd, Video, Celebrities, Reality-FreeIf you are anything like me, then you have been dying to see the second season of Flight of the Conchords since the last credits rolled. I was starting to doubt my ability to make it until January, when Bret and Jemaine officially return to HBO, so…
Posted 17hrs 9mins ago by TV Squad.
If you'll be without your personal assistant when webapp Sandy closes its doors next Monday, you may not have to wait long for a replacement: A group of developers are working to build a free, open-source Sandy, and they're hoping to resurrect as much of Sandy as they can from the startup graveyard.…
Posted 17hrs 24mins ago by Lifehacker.
Be thankful for beer, major league umpires, and the wonder of advertising
Posted 17hrs 26mins ago by Mixx: Popular.
The Mumbai terrorists used an array of commercial technologies -- from Blackberries to GPS navigators to anonymous e-mail accounts -- to pull off their heinous attacks...
Posted 17hrs 43mins ago by Mixx: Popular.
Clair de Lune; transcripted by Leopold Stokowski, conducted by Wolfgang Sawallisch.
Courtesy of the Philadelphia Orchestra.
Posted 17hrs 45mins ago by Mixx: Popular.
Software developer Gustavo Duarte explains exactly what your computer does while you wait, in a thorough, technical answer to the question "Why the hell is my computer taking so long to do something when I have such a fast processor?" This post isn't for anyone who glazes over at measurements of throughput…
Posted 17hrs 45mins ago by Lifehacker.
This cool building in Osaka, Japan actually has a freeway going through it.
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Posted 18hrs 40mins ago by Neatorama.
A fan of I Can Has Cheezburger sent them this delightful postcard he found in an antique store. The print is from 1905. The grammar may have been nicer back then, but those poor LOL Kitties are have been being denied food for over 100 years. What a shame. I think someone needs to start a charity organization…
Posted 18hrs 57mins ago by Neatorama.
Windows only: Free text replacement application PhraseExpress updates to version 6.0, sporting a handful of new time-saving features and stability improvements. If you're unfamiliar with text replacement apps like PhraseExpress, they're like digital shorthand for your computer; the user defines small…
Posted 18hrs 59mins ago by Lifehacker.
Filed under: TV on DVD, Reality-FreeHere are the new TV DVDs, in stores tomorrow.For some reason, I didn't know that Jake and the Fatman was out on DVD (or I knew at one point and just forgot). Is this something I want on DVD? I'm tempted, because it's a show that you'll probably never see in syndication…
Posted 18hrs 59mins ago by TV Squad.
GreenTalk Radio host Sean Daily talks with Danielle Brigida, a marketing and social media expert working with the National Wildlife Federation.
Posted 19hrs ago by Mixx: Popular.
Firefox with Greasmonkey (and other browsers): The Helvetireader theme for Google Reader strips away the bells and whistles and offers a minimal interface redesign for keyboard shortcut users. Install Helvetireader in Firefox with the Greasemonkey extension, Opera, a Chromium nightly build, or Safari…
Posted 19hrs 29mins ago by Lifehacker.
Filed under: OpEd, The Shield, Reality-FreeLast week another terrific cable drama, The Shield, took its final bow in a series finale that still has fans talking. The talk is mostly about the last three minutes, which featured Vic Mackey's silent contemplation of the life he now leads after losing his…
Posted 19hrs 57mins ago by TV Squad.
Online language translation app Frengly autodetects the source language of text and quickly translates it into your language of choice. Just paste any piece of text into Frengly, hit translate, and let Frengly take care of the rest. Frengly actually plugs into the Google Translate API to both detect…
Posted 19hrs 59mins ago by Lifehacker.
Ever wish a squid could sit on your head all day? Well, here’s your chance. It’s even better than a real squid, since it won’t make you stink and doesn’t feel slimy. Instructables has all the details you need to create your own squid hat.
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Posted 20hrs 11mins ago by Neatorama.
On the heels of Sandy's closure announcement, another small startup announces its shutdown and acquisition: previously mentioned file-sharing service Pownce has been acquired by blogging software maker Six Apart, and the service is shutting down on December 15th. Pownce users can export their messages…
Posted 20hrs 42mins ago by Lifehacker.
Filed under: Late Night, Programming, Celebrities, Talk Show, What To Watch Tonight, Reality-Free At 8, ABC has Shrek the Halls, followed by How The Grinch Stole Christmas, two new episodes of Samantha Who? and a new Boston Legal. NBC has a new Chuck at 8, then new episodes of and HeroesMy Own Worst…
Posted 20hrs 54mins ago by TV Squad.
What's a good webcam setup for my technophobic relative?How can I change white web pages to a darker color?What's a good call forwarding service?Any great ideas for reducing my computer clutter?What's the best way to stream HD media from a PC?
Posted 20hrs 59mins ago by Lifehacker.
Google has published official documentation detailing their plans to bring extensions to their beta web browser Chrome. When we asked you a few months back whether Chrome with extensions would convince you to switch, 28% said yes, while a whopping 22% of you said that as long as an Adblock extension…
Posted 21hrs 41mins ago by Lifehacker.
When you find yourself glancing worriedly from your bank account balance back to the calendar this holiday season, it's time to ditch the catalogs and commercials, roll up your sleeves and get to doing it yourself. Everyone's cutting down on expenditures this year, but that doesn't mean you can't give…
Posted 21hrs 59mins ago by Lifehacker.
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Industry, Reality-FreeBaby, if you've ever wondered, wondered whatever became of WKRP...well, it didn't really exist. It was a TV show. But now it's back, and it's even in Cincinnati.However, there's a twist: this time it's the call letters of a small TV station. WBQC-TV…
Posted 21hrs 59mins ago by TV Squad.
Things - Edith Kollath Creates Books that Breathe from Bre Pettis on Vimeo.
Breathing books by Edith Kollath. How long until someone makes a functional Monster Book of Monsters? Via Bre Pettis.
Posted 22hrs 4mins ago by Neatorama.
Web site Notify Me When It's Up performs a very simple but worthwhile task: It sends you an email when a downed site you want to visit returns to the internet. Similar to previously mentioned Down For Everyone or Just Me—which helps you figure out if a site you're having trouble reaching is really…
Posted 22hrs 59mins ago by Lifehacker.
iPhone/iPod touch only: Television and movie streaming service Joost officially finds its way to the iPhone and iPod touch. Joost started out as a desktop application, was quickly overshadowed by online offerings like Hulu, then recently moved to the web in an attempt to keep up with the competition.…
Posted 22hrs 59mins ago by Lifehacker.
Filed under: OpEd, 30 Rock, Reality-FreeHave you ever loved a TV show so much that it hurts, and when other people criticize it you truly wonder if they're even watching the same TV show that you're watching?That's how I felt when I read this new piece in The New Yorker by TV critic Nancy Franklin.…
Posted 23hrs 8mins ago by TV Squad.
Thank goodness our brother site Gizmodo did all the work of digging up the best online shopping deals today, "Cyber Monday"—and saved us the trouble. Go getchyer Monday-after-Black-Friday discounts on.
Posted 23hrs 33mins ago by Lifehacker.
The problem with many online to-do list managers is that they don't support sub-lists for tasks that involve several steps—but outliner webapp Checkvist does just that, and with a clean interface that supports tons of keyboard shortcuts. Sign up for a free account at Checkvist to make your first…
Posted 23hrs 59mins ago by Lifehacker.
Virtual machine application VMware Fusion—popular for running Windows and other operating systems on Macs—is for sale at 50% off the regular price today only—down to $40 from the regular $80. Sounds like a good time to grab a copy of Fusion, one of our top 10 new and improved apps…
Posted 1 day ago by Lifehacker.
Filed under: News, Casting, Reality-FreeMeet the Press, NBC's venerable (six decades!) political affairs news program and a staple of Sunday morning TV, has been in flux ever since the untimely death of Tim Russert. Tom Brokaw has been sitting in the big chair, brought out of semi-retirement and keeping…
Posted 1 day ago by TV Squad.
The Wall Street Journal reports that outgoing FCC Chairman Kevin Martin wants to offer free Wi-Fi to all—porn-free Wi-Fi, to be more specific. The no-smut specification is a little troubling, since drawing a straight line through the massive gray area of propriety isn't a simple task, but the…
Posted 1 day ago by Lifehacker.
Today’s Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss will tell how well you really know your American history. Who was president at the time these events occurred? Not easy! I scored 77%, but that’s only because I’m old enough to remember the events as they happened! Link
Posted 1 day 1hr ago by Neatorama.
Filed under: OpEd, Animation, South Park, Reality-FreeThanksgiving isn't just about completing your Seven Deadly Sins check list before the year runs out. Thanksgiving is about family; learning where they've been, where you are, and where everyone in your life is going. Food and football are just gravy…
Posted 1 day 1hr ago by TV Squad.
The Get Rich Slowly blog details the ins and outs of the cooling-off period, a three-business-day window the (U.S.) Federal Trade Commission enforces to cancel purchases of $25 or more. There's a good deal of fine print, as J.D. explains: If you make a purchase entirely by mail or telephone, the rule…
Posted 1 day 1hr ago by Lifehacker.
Free alert service Exactfactor tracks search engine results by key words, and can email anyone interested in how any web site is doing in the battle for the top Google, Yahoo, or Live.com spot. After signing up for an account, you enter one or two web sites and key words to track them by. You'll see…
Posted 1 day 2hrs ago by Lifehacker.
Filed under: Celebrities, Casting, Reality-FreeSteve Buscemi is in talks to star in Martin Scorsese's new HBO drama Boardwalk Empire. The series chronicles the rise of Atlantic City as a gambling haven in the 1920's. Buscemi has never been a leading man, to my knowledge; however he's an extremely versatile…
Posted 1 day 2hrs ago by TV Squad.
Windows only: The Giveaway of the Day web site is featuring a small, simple, but effective macro recording tool for free until 3 a.m. EST on Dec. 2. Windows Automation Macro Recorder (WAMR), normally $30, has a nicely clean interface that focuses on two main buttons, Record and Execute, and it records…
Posted 1 day 2hrs ago by Lifehacker.
The Josephson Institute Center for Youth Ethics surveyed 29,760 American high school students about their ethics and activities. The results are disturbing. *a total of 30 percent overall — admitted stealing from a store within the past year. *More than two of five (42 percent) said that they sometimes…
Posted 1 day 3hrs ago by Neatorama.
That’s one expensive chunk of fungus! A 1.08 kilogram white truffle was sold at an auction Saturday for $200,000. A total of $284,000 was raised for charity at the auction held simultaneously in Abu Dhabi, Macau, London and Rome. Macau casino mogul Stanley Ho was the highest bidder for the 1.08-kg…
Posted 1 day 3hrs ago by Neatorama.
There are places more remote, but Tristan Da Cunha is inhabited, even though the 270 residents only see a mail ship once a year! When Napoleon was sent to St. Helena by the British, they annexed the closest chain of islands to prevent the French from attempting to rescue him. After all, who wouldn’t…
Posted 1 day 3hrs ago by Neatorama.
Think of Krampus as the “anti-Santa”, the demon who comes to punish children who misbehave during the year. Krampus Night is celebrated on the eve of St. Nicholas Day in Europe, particularly in Austria. The Krampus tradition, whilst once done with a modicum of sobriety is now used as an…
Posted 1 day 3hrs ago by Neatorama.
Firefox only: Easy DragToGo is a Firefox extension which enables interaction with highlighted text and images via mouse gestures. Text actions are determined by whether or not the highlighted text is a URL or not, and by the variables you assign in the preferences menu. An example setup, and my current…
Posted 1 day 3hrs ago by Lifehacker.
UK magazine Custom PC reports that Windows 7 will feature WARP, which lets any computer with an 800MHz processor run Aero-style desktop transparency and, with a certain performance hit, the Direct3D requirements for video games. Microsoft seems to have learned something from the "Vista Capable/Ready"…
Posted 1 day 3hrs ago by Lifehacker.
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, OpEd, Reality-FreeDo you have those things on your favorite shows that just make you smile when they happen? It's not like it's the highlight of the show or anything; maybe it's just giving you those warm fuzzies inside. Maybe it's when Earl crosses something off his…
Posted 1 day 3hrs ago by TV Squad.
The team at the Phoronix site benchmark tested the newly-released Fedora 10 Linux distribution against Ubuntu 8.10 on 32 and 64-bit machines, and found the results nearly identical. Interesting find, and nice to know it's really the features and interface that sets most Linux distros apart these days.…
Posted 1 day 4hrs ago by Lifehacker.
by Claudine Zap You read it. You liked it. You buzzed it up.In the remarkable mix of stories that circulated through Y! Buzz in 2008, people voted on the ones they thought were particularly important, funny, or just worth reading. Let's review the 10 that garnered the most attention—and votes—in…
Posted 1 day 4hrs ago by Yahoo! Buzz Log.
We've already pointed out a Greasemonkey script that hides Google's new SearchWiki ranking buttons, but there are viable work-arounds for those not using Firefox or its page-styling Greasemonkey extension. The Google Operating System blog points out four other methods. Most clever and convenient among…
Posted 1 day 4hrs ago by Lifehacker.
Ryan Estrada wrote to us about his website, Cartoon Commune, where you can get your own made-to-order (and very reasonably priced) custom comic books, children’s books, illustrations, animations and songs. Cartoon Commune has a team of 5 illustrators, each with their unique styles, so you can…
Posted 1 day 5hrs ago by Neatorama.
Windows only: Free utility Gladinet Cloud Desktop removes the web interfaces from Google Docs, Picasa Web Albums, Windows Live SkyDrive and Amazon S3 Storage, mounting them instead as folders you can add, remove, or open documents from. Gladinet hides most of the back-end technology that pulls it off,…
Posted 1 day 5hrs ago by Lifehacker.
Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without one. -…
Posted 1 day 10hrs ago by Neatorama.